crab mill final v4

Format: Commander

Commander: Homer, the Hermit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is an explosive Landfall Mill strategy commanded by Homer, the Hermit. By merging crustacean and changeling tribal density with heavy land ramp, the deck turns routine land drops into massive milling triggers. The early game focuses on deploying fast mana accelerators like Exploration, Burgeoning, and Lotus Cobra alongside efficient low-drop crabs such as Hedron Crab and Ruin Crab. Once Homer enters with a 0/9 body, each land entering the battlefield mills target players for twice your crustacean count. The mid-game accelerates into critical win attempts using mass-landfall sorceries like Scapeshift and Splendid Reclamation, mill multipliers like Bruvac the Grandiloquent, or drain finishers like Syr Konrad, the Grim and Bloodchief Ascension. The deck defends its board and disrupts opponents with a premier interaction suite featuring Fierce Guardianship, Deadly Rollick, Mana Drain, and Heroic Intervention, closing games out around Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homer, the Hermit
  • 1 Iceberg Cancrix
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scuttletide
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 4 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 6 Snow-Covered Island
  • 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spiny Starfish
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zagoth Triome